House Story
Title | House Story PDF eBook |
Author | Jasmine Roth |
Publisher | Ten Speed Press |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2021-10-12 |
Genre | House & Home |
ISBN | 1984859188 |
The star of HGTV’s Hidden Potential and HELP! I Wrecked My House offers a rare glimpse behind the TV show curtain, inviting readers into her world with super-simple advice that takes all the guesswork and stress out of any home project. “Renovating a home can be mega intimidating, but not if you surrender to the wisdom of your new guru, Jasmine Roth. She knows all.”—Jonathan Adler Finding your style is the first step to creating your dream home, whether you’re buying a new place, designing ground-up construction, or simply sprucing up the décor on a rental. Through her clear descriptions of four common design types and their many style subsets, along with thought-provoking questions and worksheets, Jasmine helps you create a cohesive feel with your home décor. She also includes helpful information on curb appeal and outdoor lighting (the most forgotten detail of your home), the science of knocking down walls, creative solutions to the five most common layout needs, floor finishes and wall treatments, everything kitchen and bathroom, and fun ways to personalize your space with DIY projects and unique bookshelf styling. With hundreds of stunning photographs of Roth-designed interiors, House Story is a lush exploration of what is possible for you and your home, whatever the size and budget.
The Story House
Title | The Story House PDF eBook |
Author | Vivian French |
Publisher | Orion Children's Books |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Children's stories |
ISBN | 9781858816456 |
Mum and Julius, Tia and Tim the twins, Jason, Daisy B, Ross and Grannie Annie all live in the house full of stories. So do their pets: dogs, cats, Roly the rat, goldfish and gerbils abound. Little Ghost and Big Ghost live there too. Every week Little Ghost flits in to see Big Ghost and to hear a new story about what's been going on. Some of the stories are about the family and their daily lives and some are about the other inhabitants of the story house - the mice who live under the floorboards, the creepy-crawlies in the garden and the toys that come alive at night. There is also the 'kitten with no name' who finds out just who he is by the end of the book. Packed to the brim with child friendly, appealing stories from a popular author and exuberantly illustrated by star artist Selina Young, this is a perfect gift package that children will want to return to again and again.
The House on Mango Street
Title | The House on Mango Street PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Cisneros |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 130 |
Release | 2013-04-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345807197 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.
Three Story House
Title | Three Story House PDF eBook |
Author | Courtney Miller Santo |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 271 |
Release | 2014-08-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062130560 |
Renovating an historic Memphis house together, three cousins discover that their spectacular failures in love, career, and family provide the foundation for their future happiness in this warm and poignant novel from the author of The Roots of the Olive Tree that is reminiscent of The Postmistress, The Secret Life of Bees, and Kristin Hannah’s novels. Nearing thirty and trying to avoid the inescapable fact that they have failed to live up to everyone’s expectations and their own aspirations, cousins and childhood best friends Lizzie, Elyse, and Isobel seek respite in an oddly-shaped, three-story house that sits on a bluff sixty feet above the Mississippi. As they work to restore the almost condemned house, each woman faces uncomfortable truths about their own failings. Lizzie seeks answers to a long-held family secret about her father in her grandmother’s jumble of mementos and the home’s hidden spaces. Elyse’s obsession with an old flame leads her to a harrowing mistake that threatens to destroy her sister’s wedding, and Isobel’s quest for celebrity tempts her to betray confidences in ways that would irreparably damage her two cousins. Told in three parts from the perspective of each of the women, this sharply observed account of the restoration of a house built out of spite, but filled with memories of love is also an account of friendship and how relying on each other’s insights and strengths provides the women a way to get what they need instead of what they want.
The House by the Lake: The True Story of a House, Its History, and the Four Families Who Made It Home
Title | The House by the Lake: The True Story of a House, Its History, and the Four Families Who Made It Home PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Harding |
Publisher | Candlewick Studio |
Total Pages | 49 |
Release | 2020-09-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1536212741 |
History comes home in a deeply moving, exquisitely illustrated tale of a small house, taken by the Nazis, that harbors a succession of families—and becomes a quiet witness to a tumultuous century. The days went around like a wheel. The sun rose, warming the walls of the house. On the outskirts of Berlin, Germany, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a hundred years, this little house played host to a kind Jewish doctor and his family, a successful Nazi composer, wartime refugees, and a secret-police informant. During that time, as a world war came and went and the Berlin Wall arose just a stone’s throw from the back door, the house filled up with myriad everyday moments. And when that time was over, and the dwelling was empty and derelict, the great-grandson of the man who built the house felt compelled to bring it back to life and listen to the story it had to tell. Illuminated by Britta Teckentrup’s magnificent illustrations, Thomas Harding’s narration reads like a haunting fairy tale—a lyrical picture-book rendering of the story he first shared in an acclaimed personal history for adult readers.
The Three Little Pigs
Title | The Three Little Pigs PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Bolam |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 26 |
Release | 2015-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781910126486 |
One day, three little pigs set off to find out about the world. They build three little houses: one of straw, one of sticks and one of bricks. But what will happen to those three little pigs when the Big Bad Wolf comes along, huffing and puffing away?
The House Tells the Story
Title | The House Tells the Story PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Van Doren |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781567925425 |
Pre-eminent historian David McCullough and noted artist Adam Van Doren unite for an excursion to the celebrated homes of fifteen American presidents, past and present.